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Many-Body Interactions In A Sample Of Ultracold Rydberg Atoms With Varying Dimensions And Densities, Thomas J. Carroll, Shubha Sunder, Michael W. Noel Mar 2006

Many-Body Interactions In A Sample Of Ultracold Rydberg Atoms With Varying Dimensions And Densities, Thomas J. Carroll, Shubha Sunder, Michael W. Noel

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Ultracold highly excited atoms in a magneto-optical trap (MOT) are strongly coupled by the dipole-dipole interaction. We have investigated the importance of many-body effects by controlling the dimensionality and density of the excited sample. We excited three different cylindrical volumes of atoms in the MOT to Rydberg states. At small radius, where the sample is nearly one-dimensional, many-body interactions are suppressed. At larger radii, the sample becomes three-dimensional and many-body effects are apparent.


Measurement Of The High-Field Q Drop In The Tm010 And Te011 Modes In A Niobium Cavity, Gianluigi Ciovati, Peter Kneisel Jan 2006

Measurement Of The High-Field Q Drop In The Tm010 And Te011 Modes In A Niobium Cavity, Gianluigi Ciovati, Peter Kneisel

Physics Faculty Publications

In the last few years superconducting radio-frequency (rf) cavities made of high-purity ( residual resistivity ratio > 200) niobium achieved accelerating gradients close to the theoretical limits. An obstacle towards achieving reproducibly higher fields is represented by "anomalous'' losses causing a sharp degradation of the cavity quality factor when the peak surface magnetic field (Bp) is above about 90 mT, in the absence of field emission. This effect, called "Q drop'' has been measured in many laboratories with single- and multicell cavities mainly in the gigahertz range. In addition, a low-temperature (100 - 140 °C) "in situ'' baking of …